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There is great Hazard in moving the Boxes fo 
as not to difturb the Bees very much, and it can 
rarely be done without being much ftung; the Boxes 
muft be lifted up, and the frefh Box put under al- 
moft inftantancoufly, and by the moft tteady Hand, 
for if the Bees are very angry, (which is almott al- 
ways the Cafe) the Apprehenfions of being ftung, 
make the Operator blunder in the Performance. And. 
this is ftill more difficult at the fecond railing, when 
the Box :and Hive are both to be lifted together. If 
the loweft Box be filled with Combs and Honey in 
the beginning of Augu/l, the Hive at ‘Top may be 
taken off for Ufe: But if it chance otherwife, that 
there be not Honey in the Combs of the loweft Box, 
the Hive cannot be taken off without endangering 
the Stock for want of Food, and-if it be left, you 
et no Honey that Year: And where it'is taken, it 
is caficr and lefs’ dangerous to {mother 20 Hives 
with Brimftone in the common way, than to take one 
Hive or Box’of one Colony. 
Another Inconvenience that attends Dr. Warder’s 
Bee-Boxes, is, that by taking off only the upper- 
Box yearly, the Wax in cach Box will be two Years 
old, and confequently ill coloured, neither will the 
Honey be of that Year’s gathering, by which means 
you never gct the pureft Foney or Wax. 
Since Bees do beft defend themfelves fromCold when 
they hang round together in a globular form, the nea~ 
rerthe Hives approach tothat form, they will be the 
warmer,but of neceflity the Bottom muft be broad,that 
the Hive may ftand firm upon the Bench, and that the 
Combs may be caficr taken out ; and the Top muft 
be three or four Inches higher than the juft Form of 
a Globe (whether the Hive be covered with Hac 
kles or not) becaufe they delight to hang in a Cone, 
and work from a Point: But chiefly to prevent fink- 
ing when they are full of Honey or young Bees, to 
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